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Silvertips outscored in home openers

Nanaimo's BCMML team dropped its home openers to the Okanagan Rockets on Saturday and Sunday at the Nanaimo Ice Centre.
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North Island Silvertips player Joe Surgenor

The North Island Silvertips were able to keep up their fast pace, but weren't able to keep up their winning ways.

Nanaimo's B.C. Major Midget League hockey team (2-2) dropped its home openers to the Okanagan Rockets on Saturday and Sunday at the Nanaimo Ice Centre, losing 6-3, then 6-4.

"Over the weekend we played well," said Jason Dubyna, the team's coach. "I was happy with the level of compete."

He said his team showed good character – when the opposition scored a goal, the 'Tips tended to respond with a goal of their own, or an energetic shift.

"Okanagan plays with good speed and they attack well," Dubyna said. "For the most part we were good at handling it; at times we got outnumbered."

In the first game Joe Surgenor, Liam Shaw and Grady McInnes scored the goals. The next day Patrick Bajkov completed a hat trick by the first intermission and almost scored a fourth goal in the third period that would have tied the game, except that the net was ruled to be off its moorings. Nick Gomerich finished with a goal and two assists.

GAME ON … The Silvertips travel to the Interior to face the Thompson Blazers on Saturday (Oct. 6) and Sunday.

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